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The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £18.99£13.61The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is... -
The Romney Marsh Coastline from Hythe to Dungeness: Britain in Old Photographs by David Singleton
RRP: £15.99£12.43Romney Marsh is a wonderfully scenic area. This book shows the full coastline and includes chapters on Hythe, Dymchurch, St Mary's Bay, New Romney, Littlestone-on-Sea, Greatstone-on-Sea, Dungeness and Lydd.About the AuthorDave Singleton was born in... -
Slaves and Highlanders: Hearing Silenced Histories by David Alston
RRP: £15.99£13.33Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade:... -
Devil's Reign by Chip Zdarsky 9781804910320
RRP: £16.99£11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910320Author Chip ZdarskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
Common Land in Britain: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Angus J L Winchester 9781837651320
RRP: £25.99£22.03An authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a million hectares of Britain has the status of common land, most of it consisting of semi-natural environments of mountain,... -
The New Kingdom by Wilbur Smith
RRP: £20.00£8.60BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The... -
The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire by David Veevers
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Veevers brilliantly retells the story we thought we knew...Important and thrilling' Dan SnowThe story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far... -
Rorke's Drift: A New Perspective Neil Thornton 9781781555538
RRP: £25.00£18.02The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu force of over 4,000 warriors, in a savage, bloody conflict with no quarter given by either side. The... -
Cromwell was Framed - Ireland 1649 Tom Reilly 9781782795162
RRP: £14.99£13.03The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these... -
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl
RRP: £19.00£11.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181263Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *... -
Paris. Portrait of a City by Jean-Claude Gautrand 9783836502931
RRP: £50.00£37.84A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a... -
The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe by Luise S. White
RRP: £12.99£11.77On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since then, there have been four confessions and at least as many... -
The Village that Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill's Pledge by Patrick Wright
RRP: £18.99£13.75Shortly before Christmas in 1943, the British military announced they were taking over a remote valley on the Dorset coast and turning it into a firing range for tanks in preparation for D-Day. The residents of the village of Tyneham loyally packed up... -
British Battleship vs German Battleship: 1941–43 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £13.99£9.85At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Their primary threats where the Royal Navy's King George V class battleships, the most modern British battleships in commission... -
Colditz: The Full Story by P R Reid
RRP: £12.99£9.36Daring escapes, ingenious plans and heroic feats are revealed in Major Pat Reid's classic Second World War history of Colditz, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp. The great fortress was supposed to be escape-proof and Reid was one of only a few men who... -
Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013 David Kynaston 9781408898284
RRP: £20.00£15.29'An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously ... [Kynaston's] portrait of a globally influential institution is, in characteristic style, rendered on an entertainingly human scale' The Times 'Not an ordinary bank, but a... -
Knight Templar 1120-1312 by Helen Jane Nicholson
£11.75The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed they were God's warriors fighting on God's behalf and developed a fearsome reputation among the... -
A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be by Dr. Deena Emera
RRP: £14.99£9.36From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause-A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens.Let's face it: The female body is an enigma. For... -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan
RRP: £9.99£6.84THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most Marcel Gauchet 9780691234960
RRP: £22.00£17.36How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy
RRP: £12.99£8.58A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians at work today. She was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at sixteen years; at eighteen she... -
Access to History: The Cold War 1941-95 Fourth Edition by David Williamson
£22.12Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
Palaces of Restoration: The Palaces, Lives and Loves of the Stuart Kings by Simon Thurley 9780008389963
RRP: £25.00£16.83The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been... -
Complete Sanskrit: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Sanskrit, with Original Texts by Michael Coulson
RRP: £39.99£25.95Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the inscriptions and... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: £14.99£11.35Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA 1850-2009 by Vivienne Sanders
RRP: £10.50£9.87Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Bring up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.62Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Daily Mail ... -
Dionysos by Richard Seaford 9780415324885
RRP: £29.99£26.64Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos - one of the most studied figures of the ancient Greek gods.Popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied... -
Trojan Women by Seneca 9780801494314
RRP: £10.99£8.84This free and eloquent translation skillfully reproduces the imagery, power, and frequent irony and sarcasm of Seneca's language.Book InformationISBN 9780801494314Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cornell University PressPublisher... -
True Tales of American Life by Paul Auster
RRP: £12.99£9.07Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the... -
Missions to the Moon: The Story of Man's Greatest Adventure Brought to Life with Augmented Reality by Rod Pyle
RRP: £25.00£15.26Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon is the perfect companion for anyone with a love of space travel, the moon landings, or NASA, CNSA, RFSA, and the rest of the world's space... -
London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings by Paul Knox 9780300269208
RRP: £25.00£20.92A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council... -
Pharaoh: art and power in ancient Egypt by Marie Vandenbeusch 9780714191317
RRP: £30.00£19.40Explores the ideals, symbolism and ideology of Egyptian kingship and uncovers the stories behind the objects and images left as a legacy by this ancient civilisation. The rulers of ancient Egypt were not always male, nor always Egyptian. At times,... -
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Brian C. Muraresku 9781250803986
RRP: £18.99£12.89The world's biggest religion has a problem. There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist - the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and and its miraculous contents have... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars by Digby Smith 9780754815716
RRP: £19.99£15.08This work contains an unprecedented wealth of over 550 full-colour illustrations, including specially commissioned uniforms, battle plans and campaign maps. It is an expert guide to the weapons, equipment, deployment, tactics and motivation of the... -
Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction by Pippa Virdee
RRP: £8.99£6.65What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old... -
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: £12.00£8.54The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine 'A glittering homage to one of the... -
The History of Islamic Political Thought: From the Prophet to the Present Antony Black 9780748639878
RRP: £31.00£26.25A complete history of Islamic political thought from early Islam (c.622-661) to the present. This comprehensive overview describes and interprets all schools of Islamic political thought, their origins, inter-connections and meaning. It examines the... -
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
RRP: £15.99£11.61A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as the house was sold out of the... -
Rasputin: A short life Frances Welch 9781780722320
RRP: £12.99£8.70Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC...' But, as the only person able to relieve the...